Louisiana Casino Proposal in St. Tammany Parish Dubbed Camellia Bay
The Pelican State gambling casino send off targeting Slidell inward St. Tammany Parish officially has a name.
Peninsula Pacific Ocean Entertainment (P2E) proclaimed today that should parish voters sign cancelled on the $325 meg development during the November 13 election, the gaming stiff will make a motion forrad with its casino, resort, and marina dubbed Camellia Bay.
Slidell’s sobriquet is “The Camellia City.” P2E, based inwards Los Angeles, asked surface area residents to state names for its proposed gambling casino complex. The troupe says it received to a greater extent than 7,000 suggestions.
Kimberly Frady, a nurse who works at the Slidell Memorial Hospital Cancer the Crab Center, received a $5,000 mark from Peninsula Pacific Ocean for her winning submission. She was ace of around 100 people who recommended the Camellia Bay name, which led to a draftsmanship for the prize.
St. Tammany Parish voters testament follow confronted with a referendum enquiry during the return election asking if they want to heave the forbidding on commercial-grade gaming that was localize inward 1996. If a simple legal age backs the Camellia Bay resort hotel scheme, P2E testament follow cleared to move forward.
Budget Balloons
P2E is seeking to relocate its gaming privileges from Bossier City to Slidell. The keep company permanently shut its DiamondJacks Casino during the pandemic.
Peninsula ab initio said it would pass $250 million inwards St. Tammany, should local voters tolerate the development. That budget has since escalated past $75 gazillion to $325 million.
Area officials said a canton of a 1000000000000 dollars mightiness not follow sufficiency to attain the ambitious goals the urban center and parish desire with the casino resort.
If approved, Camellia Bay’s revenue gaming revenue (GGR) would be content to the state’s 21.5 percent assess on casino income. P2E has in agreement(p) to to boot localise aside V percent of its casino win for Slidell and St. Tammany Parish.
P2E says the local benefits don’t oddment there. Along with employing an estimated 1,000 people, the fellowship has sworn to lead $5 zillion to the $9 meg Slidell annulus levee undertaking, and $30 gazillion to make a sports composite next to the casino.
Anticipating Vote
Camellia Bay’s resort is planned for some 100 acres simply off Interstate 10 at the Lakeshore Marina.
There are several effectual challenges to the November casino vote. One leading slice of judicial proceeding argues that the elbow grease violates the Louisiana Constitution, as it asks voters if they like to clear casino gaming at a specific site, as opposed to parish-wide.
If the cause doesn’t prevail, some trust the voter turnout testament be dictated as to where unity lives. Those faithful to the gambling casino power live more inclined to vote no, patch those farther out power ballot yes.
“This is typically what’s known as the ‘not inward my backyard’ syndrome. They’re non interested inward having this casino, whereas residents elsewhere would ilk to assure that revenue generated and are non concerned about the character of life-time because the casino is non inward their neighborhood,” explained Dr. Ed Chervenak, a political scientific discipline professor at the University of New Orleans.